Large Office Arrives on Monday to Water Damage

11/13/2020 (Permalink)

If your business is unattended for the weekend and holidays it is important to check all of your water lines before locking up.

Most offices are closed on weekends, and holidays.  Either there is a maintenance service, or a designated janitor who generally will come after hours during the week, or for a larger facility will provide janitorial duties throughout the day.  Once the building is locked, for all practical purposes the doors will remain unlocked until the next workday.  It is an unfortunate situation, but it does happen.  The first to arrive at the office will generally be the first to discover any mishap that happened over the weekend.

Arriving at the office on a Monday morning it was discovered that a pipe had failed over the weekend causing water to flow from the breakroom, and into the hallway and adjoining offices.  While the water continued to flow there was a scramble to locate where the water was coming from.  The water was shut off, and a call to SERVPRO followed.  In less than an hour SERVPRO had a crew out, and the Water Mitigation process began.  Once the Water Mitigation was complete a Mold Remediation was performed to avoid any future mold issues.

At SERVPRO we understand the importance of getting you back to “Like it never even happened.”